Permanently Beautiful

The Cleveland Clinic has pioneered the first face transplant in the U.S. You may have read about the radical procedure last month in which Dr. Maria Siemionow and a team of specialists replaced 80% of a woman’s face with that of a female cadaver in a complex operation that took 23 hours. It was only the fourth face transplant attempted in the world. While the thought of undergoing such drastic surgery may seem horrific, the procedure offers new hope for burn victims and others who have been horribly disfigured. Dr. Siemionow’s research and efforts were funded in part by a $42 million U.S. military grant designed to restore severely disfigured veterans. The military is collaborating with the Cleveland Clinic to treat service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

That the medical community has developed the capacity to perform a face transplant points out the extreme duress people experience when their face is disfigured or scarred by an accident, injury or surgical procedure. Our face is our window on the world. A pleasant face invites people to connect. Knowing we look good boosts our self confidence. Paramedical tattooing can camouflage scars and hide the imperfections that make us uncomfortable or embarrassed about our appearance. Visit our website for detailed information on paramedical tattooing.

Everyone wants to see the hot, new, 5-star show. When you want to impress, you make reservations at an elegant 5-star restaurant. When you crave luxury, you book a room in a 5-star hotel. Five stars denote the best of the best. It’s the ultimate superlative. When something is ranked 5 stars you can be assured that it is the ultimate, most superlative in its class, the true peak of perfection.

In the world of beauty, permanent makeup is the ultimate 5-star gift. The gift of permanent makeup trumps that other pantheon to beauty — a luxurious day at a premier spa. The relaxation of a good massage begins to fade the moment you leave the spa. The clean, silky feel of a wonderful facial is gone by the next morning. The beautiful radiance of professionally applied makeup is washed away at the end of the day. But the luminous gift of permanent makeup is beauty that lasts forever. With the gift of permanent makeup you look beautifully radiant every hour of every day.

Clients of The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics give us consistent 5-star ratings. Here’s what some of our clients have said about their permanent makeup experience with Melanie Whitney at The Whitney Center:

“Melany is truly a skillfully gifted artist. her work is subtle perfection. My friends still haven’t figured out why I look so wonderful!”

“I love my eyebrows! I was so impressed that Melany took so much time ‘planning’ them before she started the work. She’s truly a real pro.”

“My experience with Melany was exceptional … I love my results!”

Give your special someone — or treat yourself — to the ultimate 5-star beauty gift. Contact The Whitney Center for Permanent Makeup today to find out about gift certificates or make an appointment.

Stumped about what to give the love of your life for the holidays this year? Still poking through stores looking for the ultimate “perfect gift”? Frantically searching the Internet for a unique gift that will WOW your special someone? With only 8 shopping days left, time is running out.

Jewelry and perfume used to be gift-giving staples men could rely on. But jewelry, while lovely, usually spends more time in the drawer than it does adorning your beloved. And the discomfort of allergy sufferers has nixed perfume from the workplace, making it an occasional weekend treat for your favorite lady. People are looking beyond the ordinary in their search for an extraordinary gift this season. With so many people suffering from the effects of the recession, ostentation is out and practicality is in. Even the Queen of England, mindful of her subjects’ suffering, has admonished the royal family to avoid flagrant spending.

Everyone is looking for thoughtful, useful gifts that will please the recipient without being insensitive to the economy, the environment or the host of other important issues we worry about these days. Given such strictures, it’s a daunting task to find a gift with the desired ability to make your favorite person gasp with delight and flush with pleasure. A gift of permanent makeup will do just that.

The ultimate gift of beauty, permanent makeup enhances the beauty of a woman’s natural features and can hide the small flaws and imperfections. In the artistic hands of highly acclaimed permanent cosmetics technician Melany Whitney, brows, eyes, lips or the entire face can be made permanently beautiful. The gift of permanent makeup guarantees that you look your most beautiful every moment of every day.

Visit the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics to arrange a holiday gift certificate for your special someone. (We offer permanent makeup for men too!) The unique gift of permanent makeup is certain to make the special person in your life gasp with delight when she or he opens your gift. And that will bring a smile to your face too.

People choose to undergo plastic surgery to look younger and feel more beautiful. And much of the time people get the look they’re hoping for. But as your doctor will warn you, scarring can and often does occur. Even the most expertly performed face-lift surgery can leave visible scars. Though usually small, these scars are right where you don’t want them, where everyone can see them. Men who seek a more youthful appearance with hair transplants often find the scars left at harvesting and transplant sites to be as unsightly as the baldness they seek to cover. Let’s face it, evidence of plastic surgery is embarrassing, not beautiful.

Permanent makeup uses paramedical cosmetic tattooing to camouflage plastic surgery scars. People see the youthful, new you; not the embarrassing scars left by surgery. Prominent plastic surgeons regularly recommend paramedical cosmetic tattoo expert Melany Whitney to their patients. Highly trained and Board certified, Melany is a nationally-recognized expert in the fields of permanent makeup and paramedical cosmetic tattooing. By expertly implanting pigments within the skin layers, Melany is able make scars seem to disappear and correct embarrassing imperfections. Permanent makeup provides a beautifying finishing touch to surgical procedures.

Melany’s years of experience as a practitioner and trainer of advanced micropigmentation techniques combined with her talented natural artistry allow her to achieve the successful results you desire. Many clients schedule permanent makeup sessions with Melany when they schedule their plastic surgery. As one of Melany’s recent clients said, “A face-lift made me look younger, but permanent makeup made me feel pretty again.”

The common sense physicians who gained a popular following — and regular appearances on Oprah — when You, the Owner’s Manual hit the New York Times best sellers list, have come out with a new tome about beauty. You, Being Beautiful by Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz has arrived in bookstores in time for holiday gift-giving. Subtitled The Owner’s Manual for Inner and Outer Beauty, the book follows the same highly readable format and employs the same entertaining writing style as the authors’ previous “manuals” while exploring the science behind the physical and psychological factors that make us feel good about ourselves.   

Packed with tools, tips and quizzes, the introduction begins with a You-Q test to determine how satisfied you are with yourself. The authors then explain how to make changes to your body, your health and your inner self that will improve the way you feel about your personal beauty, inside and out. Taking a holistic approach, Roizen and Oz focus on three dimensions of beauty: looking beautiful, feeling beautiful and being beautiful. The book goes beyond the regular eat right and exercise advice to touch on cosmetic enhancements, emotional intelligence, nurturing relationships, creating positive energy, coping with stress, and the eternal search for happiness.  

If you want to surprise the beautiful light of your life with an exceptional gift — or give yourself a well-deserved present — consider wrapping up a copy of You, Being Beautiful with a gift certificate for beauty-enhancing permanent makeup from the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics. It’s a thoughtful gift that will give someone you love joy for years to come.

Those who say beauty is only skin deep don’t really understand the full concept of beauty. Webster’s defines beauty as “qualities that give pleasure to the senses or exalt the mind.” Each of us has our own personal sense of beauty. We realize that we cannot all be an Olga Kurylenko and a Heidi Klum, but in our own unique way, each of us is beautiful. We may have been blessed with long, lush eyelashes or full, pouty lips or our features may seem quite ordinary. Beauty is much more than the perfection of individual features. True beauty comes from within. It stems from an acceptance and appreciation of who we are and generates the self-confidence and inner poise that kindles the light within each of us. Even the most ordinary of features appears extraordinary when bathed in that inner glow. Perhaps that is why we feel un-beautiful when we believe one of our features is lacking. Our self-confidence stumbles in the face of a perceived flaw and that precious inner light dims.

Permanent makeup can correct those little flaws that nibble at our self-confidence and diminish our inner sense of beauty. Pale, thin or non-existent eyebrows can be artfully arched. Thin lips can be made full and rosy. An irregular lip line can be beautifully defined. Dull eyes can be made dramatic with permanent eyeliner, eye lashes and eye shadow. Sallow cheeks can be made high and rosy. Whatever individual feature diminishes your personal sense of beauty, it can be artfully corrected with permanent makeup, restoring your self-confidence in your appearance and rekindling your inner glow.

This holiday, give yourself the gift of beauty. Don’t allow a minor imperfection to diminish your sense of self. Make an appointment for a permanent makeup consultation and allow the renowned skill and artistry of permanent makeup expert Melany Whitney to restore your aura of personal beauty.

Even though it doesn’t come wrapped in one of those famous little blue boxes, the gift of permanent makeup will elicit the same stunned ohs and ahs as a diamond from Tiffany’s. Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but permanent makeup is a gift of personal beauty that will enrich every moment of your life. Permanent makeup doesn’t sit in an elegant box waiting to be taken out and worn on special occasions. Permanent makeup enhances your unique personal beauty every hour of every day, filling your life with an elegant sparkle and deep inner glow to rival any diamond.

Artfully applied permanent makeup is an intimate outward expression of your inner poise and beauty. It enhances the natural beauty of your features — eyes, brows, lips, cheeks — and can be used to correct any minor imperfections and flaws that may bother you. Those little flaws that only you see when you look in the mirror can slowly chip away at your self-esteem. Permanent makeup artfully hides those flaws so that you always present your best face to the world.

This holiday give the gift of permanent beauty to someone you love. The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics offers a full range of facial cosmetic enhancement services for women and men. Our services are performed by board-certified permanent makeup artist and instructor Melany Whitney, a nationally-recognized expert in the field of permanent cosmetics. To find out more about our permanent makeup services, please contact the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics. Staff at our offices in New York City, New York, New Jersey and South Florida and will be pleased to answer your questions and schedule an appointment. Consider our gift services this holiday.

Achieving the beautiful, natural look you desire from permanent cosmetics depends on the expertise, experience and artistry of your technician. (See our Nov. 19 and 21 posts on how to choose a permanent makeup technician.) Exemplifying the perfect blend of technical expertise and innate artistry, Melany Whitney of the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics is nationally recognized as the “Voice of Permanent Makeup.”

The nation’s foremost spokesperson for permanent cosmetics, Melany appears frequently on television and is regularly featured in major national magazines on the topics of permanent cosmetics and paramedical tattooing. Ms. Whitney brings extensive paramedical training, prodigious experience and unique artistic talent to her passionate desire to inspire every individual’s natural beauty through permanent makeup.

An expert in all skin types, including international and ethnic skin, Melany has defined the art of creating natural-looking beauty through permanent cosmetics. She is a world-class expert in the artistic creation of permanent eyeliner, permanent eyebrows, permanent lip color and full face enhancement. Recognizing a need, she has also brought the advantages of permanent cosmetics to men, offering specialized services to meet their specific needs.  

An accomplished professional artist, Ms. Whitney graduated with honors from the prestigious School of Art and Architecture of Cornell University in New York. Before entering the field of permanent cosmetics, she was a successful New York City fashion model, actress and professional makeup artist, training at the Fifth Avenue offices of Estee Lauder and Revlon. In her pursuit of professional excellence, Ms. Whitney has undertaken extensive paramedical cosmetic tattoo training and acquired impressive clinical certification, including the highest accreditation, Cum Laude, on her diplomatic boards. A Board Certified Permanent Cosmetic Professional, Ms. Whitney is fully licensed and accredited to practice professionally in the states of New York, New Jersey and Florida. 

Next time: Melany Whitney’s pioneering accomplishments in paramedical cosmetic tattooing

You don’t have to be a metrosexual to understand the value of a sharp, attractive appearance in the business arena. Astute businessmen know that first impressions count. The way you look is an important component of the image you project in the business world. Permanent cosmetics for men give you an executive polish that boosts your image and confidence. With the help of permanent cosmetics, you look cool, collected and in charge no matter how long and stressful your day. That’s a business edge worth having.

The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics offers special services tailored just to men. We understand the importance of maintaining a polished, vigorous appearance in the workplace. There’s a lot of truth to the old adage, “The face is the window to the soul.” The appearance you project in business defines you to associates and clients. Appearance has the power to create an aura of command and competence. Permanent cosmetics for men can enhance your appearance and augment your unique, personal style.

Many businessmen have found early male pattern baldness to be a disadvantage in the workplace. Our society values the vigor and enthusiasm of youth. The appearance of age can cause colleagues to unfairly stereotype you as outdated. Many men have embraced hair transplants as a way to combat early baldness and maintain an appearance as flexible and vigorous as their business ideals. Unsightly scarring, however, has been a major drawback. Paramedical cosmetic tattooing camouflages scars from hair transplant harvesting sites, giving you back the attractive, natural look of youth.

Eyebrow thickening provides vigor and forcefulness to facial planes, enhancing your unique, dynamic, personal style. Some men are born with naturally thin eyebrows, but Alopecia Areata Universalis, the second most common hair loss disease, can cause thick brows to thin unnaturally or even disappear. Because our eyebrows provide the frame that defines our face, they are an essential element in creating facial expressions. Thin eyebrows can make us seem ineffectual, unintelligent and constantly surprised; while strong eyebrows project a sense of command, authority and masculinity. How you look can affect the consideration and weight you and your ideas are given in the workplace.

Melany Whitney has just returned from an engagement as the guest speaker and on the “panel of experts” at the annual Society for Permanent Cosmetic Professionals Conference in Houston, Texas. Melany spoke on the topic of “Cosmetic Tattooing for Men; a Growing Market”. In her presentation she highlights that men are seeking physical enhancement of eyebrows, scar coverage, lip correction, and to camouflaging of hair transplant harvest areas. The typical male client has different needs than a woman but both want quality, first-class results that only a top expert, such as Melany, can provide.

Permanent cosmetics are not just “for women only” anymore! Check out our gallery on our website created to showcase fabulous results for men who have opted for cosmetic tattooing too.